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OpenAI

  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    OpenAI pursues public benefit structure to fend off hostile takeovers

    ChatGPT maker considers largely untested company model to protect chief executive Sam Altman from outside interference

    OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Nathan Benaich
    OpenAI is right to abandon non-profit status

    Complicated corporate structures cannot force leaders to agree and makes fundraising more difficult

    Sam Altman
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    LexTech start-ups
    Why tech unicorns struggle to avoid the glue factory Premium content

    More companies are reaching the $1bn valuation milestone, but growing from horned foal to winged steed is getting tougher

    OpenAI’s Sam Altman
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Lex
    OpenAI poses new investors an intelligence test Premium content

    Start-up has another $6.6bn of cash, but providers will have had to grapple with at least 4 flavours of complexity

    The OpenAI logo is displayed on a smartphone screen against a blurred background of orange and blue lights.
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Inside BusinessRichard Waters
    OpenAI feels competitors breathing down its neck

    Latest funding round has boosted the company’s valuation to $150bn, but it faces formidable challenges

    A montage of Sam Altman and the logo of OpenAI
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    OpenAI asks investors not to back rival start-ups such as Musk’s xAI

    Sam Altman-led group wants exclusive arrangement as it secures $6.6bn funding round

    A montage of Sam Altman with the logos of OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    LexArtificial intelligence
    AI may regret aping Wall Street’s regulatory resistance Premium content

    Tech innovators have escaped new rules on AI’s potential harms but a post-spill clean-up could be worse

    An illustration showing an OpenAI logo behind a computer motherboard
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    OpenAI bets on AI agents becoming mainstream by 2025

    Tech groups race to turn generative artificial intelligence into a staple of working life in bid to drive revenues

    Close-up of a person holding a mobile phone in front of an OpenAI logo
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    SoftBank to invest $500mn in OpenAI

    Japanese group led by Masayoshi Son set to join $6.5bn funding round that would value start-up at $150bn

    Sam Altman
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Who’s left at OpenAI? Sam Altman consolidates power after failed coup

    Departure of chief technology officer Mira Murati ensures ChatGPT-maker’s chief executive is now surrounded by allies

    Combination image of Sam Altman, Mira Murati and OpenAI logo
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    OpenAI pushes ahead with for-profit plans and talks to give Altman a stake

    Chief technology officer Mira Murati to step down in leadership shake-up

    OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman speaks at the World Economic Forum in January 2024
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Banks warm up to nuclear power

    Fourteen major banks and financial institutions back COP28 goal of tripling nuclear capacity by 2050

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Anja Manuel
    It’s time for limited, mandatory testing for AI

    Like other dangerous products, the largest models should be tested to prevent possible harm

    Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in 2023
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Investors pile into OpenAI’s $6bn funding round in unprecedented bet

    Venture groups believe ChatGPT-maker will eventually be the world’s dominant AI company and worth trillions of dollars

    Montage featuring OpenAI chief Sam Altman and the logos of OpenAI and Thrive Capital
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    OpenAI acknowledges new models increase risk of misuse to create bioweapons

    Company unveils o1 models that it claims have new reasoning and problem-solving abilities

    An OpenAI o1 preview model
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    OpenAI launches AI models it says are capable of reasoning

    ChatGPT maker’s o1 comes as tech companies race to create increasingly powerful and sophisticated systems

    An image combining an OpenAI logo and a microchip
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    OpenAI aims to raise at least $5bn at $150bn valuation

    ChatGPT maker’s value set to nearly double as it seeks more investment to fund ambitious expansion

    OpenAI logo in front of a computer keyboard
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s ‘safe’ AI start-up raises $1bn

    Funding round from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia values 3-month-old company at around $5bn

    Ilya Sutskever
  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    AI hit by copyright claims as companies approach ‘data frontier’

    Anthropic faces legal action by publishers as tech groups reach limit on material to train artificial intelligence models

    Hand holding a phone with OpenAI ChatGPT AI chatbot and anthropic ai
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    OpenAI weighs changes to corporate structure amid latest funding talks

    Discussions come as Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft consider funding round that would value start-up at more than $100bn

    A symbol for the OpenAI virtual assistant arranged on a smartphone
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    OpenAI in talks to raise fresh funds at a valuation of more than $100bn

    Discussions could pave the way for a fresh injection of billions of dollars into ChatGPT maker

    OpenAI logo in front of a laptop keyboard
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    OpenAI joins opposition to California AI safety bill

    ChatGPT maker says legislation would harm innovation and stifle start-ups in the state

    A symbol for the OpenAI virtual assistant arranged on a smartphone
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    English ChatGPT users flummoxed by language glitch as bot turns Welsh

    OpenAI chatbot spontaneously responds in Celtic language

    Montage of mobile phone and ChatGPT
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    xAI
    Musk’s xAI launches Grok-2 in race to catch ChatGPT

    Latest chatbot ranks in top 5 models, according to independent benchmark sites, and will be available to X subscribers

    The xAI logo is seen next to a computer motherboard
  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
    Where have OpenAI’s founders gone?

    Only two of 11 co-founders of ChatGPT maker are still active at the $86bn company after a series of exits this year

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